Specifically, a low-class roguish and dishonest hero, usually satirizing high society and corruption. It's a genre with a lot of gold to be found, but also more prone than most genres to devolving into teenage bullshit. At best you get Han Solo. At worst you get Rob Liefeld.

If you want to make Myr cringe, think Catcher in the Rye, but instead of a well-to-do academy kid Holden is actually Sluggo. That's basically a picaresque.

Specifically, a low-class roguish and dishonest hero, usually satirizing high society and corruption. It's a genre with a lot of gold to be found, but also more prone than most genres to devolving into teenage bullshit. At best you get Han Solo. At worst you get Rob Liefeld.

If you want to make Myr cringe, think Catcher in the Rye, but instead of a well-to-do academy kid Holden is actually Sluggo. That's basically a picaresque.

I guess so. Weren't all the Twig ones a little like that though? I could be way wrong, it's been a longass time, but as I recall the second and third books were also pretty much a series of misadventures, even if the characters had more of a well-defined "quest" in those ones.

I found the revelations about what happened to Twig and crew very upsetting. But yeah, I don't really remember the actual plots all that well either, just how I felt about them at the time. Entirely possible I would have a different opinion if I were to reread em.